When your economy is not growing that fast, everybody's got to bite the bullet.
Even a China growing at 7% or indeed less is still adding to the world economy an economy equivalent to the UK or more.
The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
In the simplest terms, a fast-growing company can't keep growing at the same fast rate forever. It eventually has to slow down.
If the economy is growing fast, there is call for a distributing income from the rich to the poor to to put in place social safety nets.
The economy working - the economy growing, corporations growing and hiring people and wage increases occurring - is the worst thing that can happen politically for the Democrat Party.
According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat.
The rich would do better with a smaller share of a rapidly growing economy then they're doing now with a large share of an economy that is barely growing at all.
To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.
We're in a tightening cycle and the reason is the economy is growing, there's no expectation that the global economy and the Polish economy as a consequence could slow down dramatically.
We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy.
It has been said that the Fed's job is to take the punch bowl away just as the party gets going, raising interest rates when the economy is growing too fast and inflation threatens.
The Chinese economy is growing at the rate of 9 percent; the Indian economy growing at the rate of 8 percent - enormous I think opportunities for two-way flow of trade, technology and investment.
The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is an anathema to an ecologist.
There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand, the current political system is intractably national. So there is a growing dichotomy between a global economy and locally based politics.
China is growing very quickly and is clearly becoming an important player in the world economy.